Our Brand Is Crisis Page #2

Synopsis: In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Gallo hires American James Carville's political consulting firm, Greenberg Carville Shrum, to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. GCS brings in Jane Bodine to manage the campaign in Bolivia. Battling her arch nemesis, the opposition's political consultant Pat Candy.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): David Gordon Green
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
R
Year:
2015
107 min
$4,895,965
Website
1,152 Views


There's one detail that Ben

neglected to mention.

The opposition has hired

their own American.

Pat Candy.

God, you guys are amazing.

Amazing. Unbelievable.

What? Oh, come on.

He didn't beat you. You beat yourself.

And I'm giving you

another shot at the title.

Light the fire, honey.

You wanna go out? Go out.

But go out a winner.

Damn it, Nell.

Castillo is a self-made millionaire.

He's known as a conservative senator

and a voice for globalization.

Sure, there were some problems

the last time he was president,

but he is back with a new,

positive attitude.

Just keep that f***ing

hippopotamus away from me.

- No problem.

- Okay.

It's all about extremes in Bolivia.

It's the highest,

most isolated country in South America.

You know, you got a wealthy urban elite

who have been dominating

political and economic life for centuries,

but the vast majority of

the population are dirt poor.

Now, they've had decades

of militaryjuntas,

bloody coups, tanks on the street.

I mean, it's no joke down there.

During your presidency,

there was a lot of social unrest.

So if you could go back in time,

what would you change?

Is there something

wrong with her?

- You okay, Jane?

- Okay, so what is it?

What did... What did he do?

Try and think. Perhaps all the people

who died during the protests?

Yes, I... I don't know.

Aww!

Hola.

...close together.

I'm just trying to get off the damn plane.

Hi, thank you. Nice to see you.

Looking sharp, Buckley.

- Oh!

- You okay?

Honey, honey, honey. Easy, easy.

Probably the altitude sickness.

We're so high up here,

you get low partial pressure of oxygen.

Very common with the visitors.

- She can't breathe.

- She'll be all right.

Tell us more about our candidate.

Well, Castillo's carrying

a lot of history,

a lot of bad associations.

So the job here, basically,

is to take a candidate that

the electorate doesn't like,

rebrand him, and then

sell him, sell him, sell him.

Shouldn't be too difficult.

Look at those camels.

They're not camels.

They're, um, llamas.

Looks a lot like a camel to me.

They are in the camel family.

Llamas, alpacas, camels,

they're in the same family.

Yeah,

those are baby hairy camels.

Can I put my bag here? It's okay?

Can we just go, please?

Yeah, but do you

want, uh... Can you open your window?

- I want you to not speak for a second.

- All right. Okay.

Sir? Uh, a little heat, please?

Ben, how do you pronounce these, uh,

indigenous, uh, people?

- The... Yes.

- The Quechua?

- Aymara. Guarani.

- Guarani.

Constantly protesting.

They're pretty much the majority here.

I mean, imagine... Imagine there was

200 million Apache back home.

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Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan (born 1968) is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England. He was writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays, Bones and Noir. Both of these plays have displayed Straughan's talent for writing dark, twisted and witty stories. His first ambition was to be a professional musician and he achieved this while playing bass guitar with Newcastle-based band "The Honest Johns". He spent four years touring and recording with the band through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s before leaving to take up full-time education at Newcastle University. While Peter was a student he was also a member of the band Cactusman. Peter wrote the song "Killer", which appeared on the CD album North of London, a collection of music by North East bands released through Newcastle Arts. Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution and adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. He is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. O'Connor died of cancer, aged 49, in 2010, before the film was released. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. more…

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